[Go-essp-tech] CMIP5 Data Coming February 1st

[Nathan Wilhelmi]

Hi All,

    We believe the 4th bullet is a gateway problem and as such have been 
tracking it here. https://vets.development.ucar.edu/jira/browse/SGF-2029 
We will follow-up with more details on this shortly.

Thanks!

-Nate

Cinquini, Luca (3880) wrote:
> Hi Dean,
> thanks for the notice... indeed it might be a very good idea to focus 
> on CMIP5 preparedness on the next GO-ESSP conf call.
>
> This is my personal understanding of the situation: 
>
> o Local system (Data Node + Gateway) are able to collect and deliver 
> data, and register users.
>
> o Single Sign On among federation patners is working correctly
>
> o An issue has been uncovered which affects authorization when the 
> Data Node is front-ended by a proxy, as it happens for BADC:
> http://esgf.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11
>
> o Another issue has been uncovered recently which affects a user from 
> gateway A downloading data published to gateway B when using 
> wget/curl, when the data is protected by the an attribute controlled 
> by Gateway C (for example, the PCMDI attribute "CMIP5 Research"): the 
> download will work only if the user from Gateway A has already logged 
> into Gateway B. This may not be the most critical case, at this 
> point... See http://esgf.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12
>
> o We have not performed extensive testing of metadata exchange yet, 
> although it is generally believed to work.
>
> Everybody, please add your understanding of the current status...
>
> thanks, Luca
>
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Williams, Dean N. wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>  
>>             Karl has informed me that we are expecting to receive 
>> CMIP5 model output in 3 weeks, so we must have ESG ready to publish 
>> and distribute data to the community by February 1st. At the moment, 
>> the targeted model output is CCCma (Canadian Centre for Climate 
>> Modelling and Analysis). (I am sure other data sets will quickly 
>> follow suit.) To be ready, we must have federation completed. Luca, 
>> Stephen, Eric, Craig, and others can you give the status of the 
>> federation testing? The last I remember:
>>  
>>
>>    1. Stephen was going to include some Hadley data for federation
>>       federation testing;
>>    2. Craig was testing replication from multiple sites;
>>    3. Federation security was in place;
>>
>>
>>    From what I remember, The federation was mainly completed and 
>> mostly tested with a few minor changes needed. Primarily we need to 
>> test federation between PCMDI-BADC, PCMDI-DKRZ, PCMDI-ANU, etc.. What 
>> else are we missing to be ready for the Febuary 1st deadline?
>>  
>>     Perhaps this next Tuesday, we can discuss our preparedness for 
>> the onslaught of data. How many of us will be around for a Tuesday 
>> go-essp meeting at our regular time?
>>  
>> Thanks and best regards to all,
>>             Dean
>
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